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———— WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Buresu Forecast.) Partly cloudy and colder tonight; minimum temperature about 25 de- grees. Temperature—Highest, 49, at moon yesterday: lowest, 31, at 6 a.m. today Full report on page 9. ®(Closing N.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 Fntered as second class matter No, post offi®, Washington, D. 30,164 @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening St WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1926—SIXTY PAGES. COURT TURNS DOWN'S™- :’demns Methods of Co MISTRIAL OF CASE SUMMATION BEGIN Judge Parker Makes No Ex- planation—Prosecutor Al- leged Some Jurors Siept and Held Biased Views. | | Attacking the method of commit- ment of insane perion trict of Columbia to S Hospital and setting forth a num jof recommendations to aileviate | "archiac, harsh 2nd unnecessary” | mettods used at present for commit- meis, the speclal medical advisory committee of flve prominent super- intendents of insane hosypitals today | gave St. Elizabeth’s a clean bill of health in so far as the care of patlen: al treatment is concerncd. the committec the 1 care of those enf e from e fal diseases. It handicaps in old structures vith inadequaie sanitary equipment is overcrowded to a degrees which has i ONE AF'PI;IED DEROGATORY | EPITHET TO HIM, HE SAYS|! d, “is 4 t (reatment and o cveral Taking of Testimony Finished at, Staff Receives Praise in Report. - | *| " “Inquiry hy' your medical advisers | dirclose LIZABETH'S GIVEN APPROVAL' OF MEDICAL INVESTIGATORS| SIMPSON PLEA FOR sucericr Depertments Gommission Gon- mmitment as Archaic. vet (he best modern methods of treat- ment and care prevail and are excep- tionally well maintained everywhere. nadequate provisions for the admisslon, detention and discharge of patients.” “From the standpoint of educa- tional training, proven competence in the several fields of medical work presented by the hoepital’s activities, in both routine medical dutles |and research offort, the medical staff is not excelled by that of any hos- for mental disorders with which - ave acquainted.” was made to Secretary ork by a committee George M. Kline ", Mitchell of War- 5 H. Ruggles of Yala Univel . Owen Copp of Colus " (Continued on Page Forenoon Session—Affidavits Of-| disordered laws of commitment, and fered by State to Back Motion, | Which Was Later Denied. i e vt RULE TAKES STAND o e INOWNDEFENSE HOUSE, Dece Parker, 1 a motion by the the Hall her 1—Justice rreiding el Youth Accused of Murder on Halloween Describes Fight at Shack. in prosccution | idavits submitted | zations | of the | py o sratt Corrasondent of The star. . the courtroom dur- | ROCKVILLE, Md., December 1.— aring of testimony and | Richard Henry Rule, 22 years old, against the | son of Henry Rule, an official of the prejudice os in dis- | National Capital Press, who is being esentati the court | gomery County courthouse on charge of murdering William J. Barbee, Jr., son of a retired detective, during a fight between members of two Hal- loween parties on October 30, today ¢ |took the witness stand in his own ! defense and declared the fatal shot been taken | Was fired accidentally after he had L 1t been assaulted and threatened by a hrought | { large group of men. cre begun | “ph, “tragedy occurred about mi ! night on Halluween in front of a boy camp, of which Rule was in charge, made no commer at he had studied | had de- 1 tor nor beyond the aft cided to « trial counsel The from back and for the d It wa torney ¥ he woer eCarter | 1ocated on the Colesville pike { tried before Circuit Court in the Mont- | about | would speak He was to « session ence 1 Simpson, spec close for the e, Begins Summing Up. McCarter began his duty Y gher duties day Pointing slaught Mr asked, “Are they people who o o ends with gu golng Chri i ned in detail how church work threw hushand and Mrs. se attorney went on led the “domes- ly life of the saying that living a_quiet life M Hall lived in a voted to her husband, tevens lived in pleas- happy to run to His i at happy homie. and that Wi ant surroundin fires, as are many summing up | than | by | "teen age, who, had been invited and | attended with the consent of their | near " night,” he sald, “when one of the boys, "1 Jesse Ward, ran to me crying, “Come r | trouble you will find it | four miies north of Silver Spring, Md. Barbee s one of a group hound fc a fraternity dance on the farm neas Burnt Mills, who had lost their way stopped at the Jittle shack, catled Biue Ridge Club, to inguirs their Describes Party Preparations. ‘Telling his story, young Rule re- {counted _ preparations” which he and others had made for a Ilalloween party at the clubhouse, describing {various holiday costumes worn by {the 10 or 12 boys and girls of late parents. ‘Two other boy seated in a the shac three girls and I tomobile parked shortly before mid- w quick, Dick, there is a big gang com- |ing up; it looks like trouble.” T went {to the front of the shack and found | there three strange boys standing on | the steps with about 18 more in front !of the house. Some remarks were made about our costumes and some one struck me on the knee, so that |1 had to grab the porch railing to ikeep from falling dow. “] didn’t like that,” he continued, “and I said, “If you are looking for | *What are you going to do about Carter id. JeCarter $ald. lyeo one of the boys asked me. e e ex.| “I knew 1 was meant to fight, so I e O et | Stepped from the porch and struck at e e {the boy. He hit me and knocked me g e | down, as I didn’t know anything about ture of Mrs. Mills. | fighting. T merely tried te hold his S | hands. After we had strugsled a bit s was pietured 08 @ Woman | (o \are” separated and as 1 was get- seeking ' in o some one kicked me in_the ohurch jow The blow sort of dazed me.” sed the fuct!” Rule then said there was consid- ied Mrs. Mills| g ple “cussing” and that he asked 1922, hadl 0 the swearing be stopped because iad heiped DAy | ipore were ladies present. At that juncture, he said, another boy struck was Willie's idol, After outlining thi Mrs. M who lived a dr an out work 3 that Mrs. Hall had to a hospital in visited he: the hospital Dill st of devotion. idress sntionth he sl o McCarter hat James Slain womar, sortunity of between Mills than knowin; Rev. M did Mrs. Hall Addresses on Letters. He pointed out that while the Halls spendin: vacation in Maine Mrs. Milis addressed her love rs to Seal Harber, a 10 or 15 motor boat ride from the were staying, My their home, would have an s on the rter again s Milis over McCarter 1s he to ol day and sa come hon ply from Mil Perhaps the ne t significant ' gaid the de- tis a me r. Mi Motion for Mistrial. itor made the mo- trial at the opening a dozen or more The spe tion for rs. Jane Gibson, and n guilty of inattention during the trial The matter of the mistrial motion having gone over for a time, the State offered the last of its rebuttal wit- nesses. The brief surrebuttal testi- mony, including a handwriting ex- pert tc combat testimony of the State’s expe: followed, and, with the testimony all in the mistrial ef State was renewed. vit was read from Glibert hotel proprietor, who said that one of the furors had applied an unprintablc epithet to Simpson and a somewhat similar term of reproach to Mre. Gibson. Simpson argued that the State had shown sufficient grounds for dismissal ‘ " (Continued on Page ¢, Columa 2 him in the face. Intended to Shoot in Air. “I was badly frightened by that ! ime,” the witness continued, “and |1 saw the crowd gathering around in |a circle. T thought of my gun and | dectded to fire it into the air to [ frighten them away. Just as I was | ratsing it above my head it went off and 1 saw a figure fall.” | The defendant then recounted how | he went back into the shack to wait | for the arrival of officers, asking that { two members of the slawing youth's sarty stay with him He said he also hegged them to bring the wounded oev to the cabin, that he knew quite 1 bit of first ald. Barbee, however, already had been started to a hospital, | dying ‘on the steps of Walter Reed { without regaining consciousness while iin the arms of Henry Bowles Dalby. | Rule also stated that all but one of the members of his club were Boy | Scouts. Farly In the evening, he said, i he had fired four shots to frighten two of the younger members of the {party, and that following this Hal- \oween “fun” he left the gun in his pocket. Defense Attorney Barnard Welsh {then turned the witness over to the State for cross-examination. State’s | Attorney Joseph C. Cissel then drew from the defendant the fact that in {1920 he rried at Elkton, Md., a girl| named dess M. Proctor, 17 vears old. of Philadelphia, giving her age ~(Continued on Page 7, Column 1) e Gull Catches Golf Tea-Party Wives Declared Unfit to Be Good Mothers By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, December Wives unwilling to forego soctal life should not become mothers, in the opinion of Dr. Florence E. Bamburger, professor of education at Johns Hopkins University. Addressing the Chiid Study As- slcation of America, she sald: “The child-bearing woman can- rot lead a soctal life and at the same time mold the character of her child. The child returning from school needs the sympathetic ear to help in the solution of some problem that has come up during the day, and, of course, the mother cannot ‘be at home to meet the child if she insists on going to her bridge and tea. parties. “L think there should be a divi- sion of married women into two types.” 9 LAST BRITISH MINE STRIKERS GIVE UP | Great Economic Fight Over Except for Official Acknowl- edgement by Leaders. BY JOHN GUNTHER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright. 1926. LONDON. December 1.—The great coal strike {s over. With the miners in the three last stubborn districts, | gross revenue tax were stricken out. ! Durham, Yorkshire and South Wales, ordered back to the pits today, noth- ing now remains to “end” the strike except the detail of an offictal an- nouncement. So far as effective restriction of out- put is concerned, the strike ended a fortnight ago. Thus the greatest in- dustrial stoppage in British history comes to an end, having spanned the best part of a year—from May 1 to December 1. And it ends as it began, in a muddle of uncertainty and fu- tility. i Unsatisfactory to All. Even the stanchest government or- gans admit that the ‘“end” of the strike {s bitterly unsatisfactory. No real settlement has been reached. The miners have been forced back to their Jobs by literal starvation. They have been compelled to accept terms which | in no sense can have a lasting basis. | Yet the owners are equally unsatisfied. | The general opinion is that the pres. | ent settlement only serves to defer! for another year, or perhaps two or three, the eventual {ssue. There has been no effort to organize the indus- try on a permanent basis; no attempt tot follow the repot of the Royal Coal Commission; no uction to prevent just such another strike next year. Meanwhile, the losses sustained by Great Britain are staggering. The fol- lowing may be considered as some re- sults of the strike: Heavy Losses Estimated. 1. A direct loss to British trade vari. ously estimated up to 380,000,000 pounds sterling. 2. An increase in unemployment, ex- clusive of the miners, of 620,000. 3. Trade union funds are exhausted. 4. Hope of reduction of taxation in the next budget is gone. 6. Foreign markets probably are re- duced permanently. 6. Railway earnings are down by a million pounds a week. 7. Only 5 blast furnaces out of 482 are working. 8. The iron and steel industries are crippled, possibly permanently. 9. The textile trades are suffering the most serious slump in years. 10. Shipbuilding is practically dead. 11. Domestic suffering is serious and widespread. And what is on the credit side of the a(‘i‘)ount? espite this depressing balance sheet, England is emerging from the strike with a high heart. Many in. | dustrialists think the boom they have been expecting since the war now is bound to come. Radio Programs—Page 43. Carries It to Sea By the Associated Press. DEL MONTE, Calif.. December 1—Now James A. McKenzie, for- mer president of the California Golt Assoclation, will tell one. ‘While golfing with Gouverneur Morris, author, McKenzie's mashie shot was caught on the first bounce by a sea gull which flew out to sea and dropped it. Morris claimg it was lost in & water -~ i Ball on Bounce and | | thrifitmas is coming SHOP EARLY And enjoy the pleas- ures of comfortable shopping. of |day adopted the bill designed to in- | vantes if they consolidate. and a heavy TRACTION MERGER MEASURE ADOPTED | BY UTILITIES BODY Bill Contains Three Rewards for Union Before July, 1928, and Heavy Penalty. 50 PER CENT REVENUE TAX INCREASE IS WEAPON! | 1 Companies’ Plans for Service-at-| Cost and Freedom From Expense | of Laying Pavements Ignored. The Public Utilities Commission to- duce the Washington street car com-; panies to merge voluntarily. Enact-} ment will be sought at the coming ses- | ston of Congress. Stripped of its verbiage the measure | contains three rewards for the com. penalty in the form of a 50 per cent increase in the gross revenue tax if they fail to do so by July 1, 1928 As previously hinted, the commission | proposed to use the increased tax as| the principal weapon to force the com-| panies to unite. | TAGNA-ARICGA PLAN the crossing policeman tax and repeal of the bridge repair tax. | Cession of Disputed Area to ond section of the bill, containing the | Bolivia With Trime Treaties rewards for merging, however, pro- Tax Removal Held Reward. The bill has been drafted in two vides for the repeal of this tax in-| crease if the companies consolidate | Proposed. | sectlons. The first provides for the in- creage in the gross revenue tax fro 4 10 6 per cent to become effective July 1, 1928, The phraseology is suc tiat the Increase will automatical become effective on that date whether the companies merge or not. The sec- before July 1, 1928. As a result the; commission considers the removal of |- the 2 per cent increase in taxes as a | By the Assoclated Press. re\\'a-rd! and na: a, penalty. : 2l SANTIAGO, Chile, December 1.—A Members of the committes explained | new formula by Frank B. Kellogs, S e R R Bl i T panies submitted several days ago, ex- | (1 Setliement of the dispute hetween cept that the objectionable service-at. { Chile and Peru over the provinces of cost plan, based on an agreed valua- | Tacna and Arica has been made pub- tion, {8 removed. The commission bill | lic here. alsa ignored the request of the com- the laying 02 new pavements for the permanent Improvement of streets or highways utilized by them. Congress to Get Both Plans. The commission decided to transmit the outline of the merger plan sub. mitted by the car companies to Con- gress, together with its merger bill, so that it may have independent con- sideration. In adopting the merger legislation the commission modified somewhat a tentative bill brought up by its at- taches. All punitive provisions with the exception of the increage in the The first section of the bill provid- ing for the increase in tax, which the comhission has figured will take ap- proximately $200,000 a year from the income of the two companles, reads: “That so much of paragraph 5 of section 6 of the act of Congress ap- proved July 1, 1902, and such other provisions of law as impose a tax of 4 per centum upon the gross re- celpts of street railway corporations operating within the District of Co- lubla, be and the same are to that extent hereby repealed, effective mid- night June 30. July 1, 1928, and beginning at this date each such corporation operating within the Dis- The proposed solution calls for the {panies that they be relieved from any | cession of the territory to Bolivia, obligation to pay the cost incident to that country to pay to Chile what- |ever money the Chilean treasury has {expended for public works. It pro- fposas also that Arica be declared a |free port, that the territory be de- {militerized and that commercial treaties be signed by Chile, Peru and | Bolifa. I WIDE INTEREST IN PERU. | With Ambassador Confers President on Plan. | LIMA, Peru, December 1 (#).— | Widespread interest was displayed to- | day upon receipt of press advices that | tie American Secretary of State, { Frank B. Kellogg, has prepared a new proposal for settlement of the Tacna- | Arica dispute between Chile and Peru. | American Ambassador Miles Poindex- i ter conferred today with the Presi- dent of Peru. | et ae i | 400 MINERS IN WALKOUT. Georges Creek Wage Reduction Re- Jjected—800 Accept. | Special Dispatch to The Star. 8. trict of Columbia shall pay annually | et ABRRLAND. M4, December 1.— to the District of Columbla, in lleu of | pour hundred miners of the Georges all other taxes on personal PrOperty | Cresk flelds walked out this morning and franchise, @ franchise tax of 8| when announcement was made of a 30 per centum_ upon ita gross recelpts | [ui”C nt reduction in wages, TOESthENpTECEalik S Bl vea . About 800 men, mostly workers in ’ Merger. { the smaller veins, went to work under e o !the new scale. The reduction does The first provision of sectlon 2 of not affect the operations of the Con- the bill provides that “the Capital solidation Coal Co. and Davis Coal Tractlon Co., the Washington Rail.;and Coke Co. = The increase In wages effective a way an¢ Electric Co., the George-'month ago was shortlived, the set- town ané Tenleytown Raflway Co., tlement of the English coal strike the Washington Interurban Railroad Co. and the City and Suburban Rail-| way of Washington are authorized to merge and consolidate all and| singular their respective corporate | rights, privileges and franchises, and all thelr respective works and prop- erties, real and personal, tangible and intangible, into one corporation and | property for the ownership, manage-| ment, control and operation of all | their sald works, properties, rights, privileges and franchises, under such corporate name as may be. adopted, under the following conditions: “That these corporations may b$ agreement in writing, assented to by the owners, of record, of at least 75 per cent of the capital stock of each| of them, agree to merge and consoli-| date, into a single corporation and to| own and operate all the rights, estates, works, properties and franchises own: | ed by them, upon such terms andj conditions, not contrary to the provi- sions of the bill as they may agree| upon, subject, of course, to the ap- proval in writing of the Public Utili- tles Commission. Upon the execu- tion of this agreement in writing and its recording in the office of the re- corder of deeds, the merger and con- | solidation would be complete and the merged consolidated corporation will become a body politic and corporate under the name agreed on.” Privileges of Company. The merged or consolidated com- pany would have power subject to the approval of the commission to own and operate directly or through sub- sidlary companies, street railway, motor bus, or other form of public transportation service in the District and in adjacent States, subject to the. laws of such States. It also would have power to acquire, lease, operate: and enjoy all or any part of the street railway, motor bus or other transit! property and franchises of any and all such companies now operating or uthorized to operate with the Dis- trict of Columbia or adjacent States and to acquire the capital stock and other securities of these companies. The merged or consolidated corpora | { tion is authorized by the bill to issuc such stocks and bonds or other e aerce of indebtedness and to execute such mortgages, deeds of trust, trust| agreements, or other §ecurities as may necessa d_te finance needodi (Continued Column 8.) 4 bringing about a condition in the mar- ket causing a return to the scale in effect previous to November 1. $6,500 TO MRS. MELLETT. Ohio Commission Pays Sum to Wid- ow of Slain Editor. COLUMBUS, Ohio, December 1 (#). —The State Industrial Commission yesterday awarded the widow of Don R. Meliett, Canton editor, the full death claim of $6,500. Mrs. Mellett asked the sum under the workman's compensation law, claiming that Mellett was killed “in line of duty.” Mellett was siain in the doorway of his garage as the climax of a crusade he had been waging through his paper against un- derworld actlvities in Canton. Burning Liner Asks Aid. LONDON, December 1 “(#).—A | Lioyd's dispatch from Gibraltar says that the Holland-American freight and passenger liner Maasdam, from New Orleans to Rotterdam, has sent out an SOS call stating that she was afire off the coast of Portugal. A WHO'S AFRAID? 'RUM SHIP KIDNAPS DRY OFFICIAL AND GUARD LEFT TO WATCH IT Schooner, Recapture With New Orleans Assistant Admin- istrator, Gets B Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, December 1.—The French schooner Aresene J., with two prohibition officers on board, broke its tow after being recaptured by the Coast Guard boat Tallapoosa and again went free in the Gulf of Mexico, 0. D. Jackson, prohibition administra- tor, said today. The two men, J, B. Mathews, as- sistant prohibition administrator, and a chief motor machinist's mate, had been put aboard the vessel to guard it after its first capture and ‘while the patrol boat that took it went for more fuel. Patrol Roats Used Up Fuei. MOBILE, Ala., December 1 (#). The radio dispatch gave the follo: ing details of the first capture of the prohibition officer and the guard by a French auxiliary rum runner: Two patrols boats from base 15, at Biloxi, Miss., on Monday last, took in tow the French rum schooner Are- sene J.. loaded with lquor, 65- miles off Southwest Pass, Mississippi River. They started to tow the schooner to LITTLE FEAR FELT FOR ALIENS IN EAST Chinese Ports Protected Against Possible Uprising, Chamberlain Declares. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 1.—Latest re- ports state that the threatened gen- eral strike against foreigners in Han- kow has been set for Décember 4, Forelgn Secretary Sir Austen Cham- berlain today told the House of Com- mons. With the possible exception of Han- kow, Sir Austen sald, there was no reason at the present time to fear for the personal safety of British sub- jects in China’s treaty ports. British forces are available for land- ing in Hankow if necessary, the sec- retary said, and as far as he knew, the shipping facilities there were ade- quate to evacuate the British sub- Jects if an emergency should require it. He added that there was no reason to fear danger to British nationals living in isolated places in the interior from anti-foreign outbreaks, although individual cases of danger were bound to occur. The secretary told the House he understood that the United States has sent two destroyers to Hankow for the ‘Winter and that it also had a yacht and mine-sweeper there. The Japanese have three gunboats and the French a gunboat and a mine- sweeper at the port. REDS TO BUY COLUMBUS. COLUMBUS, December 1 (#).—Offi- cials of the Cincinnat!i National League base ball club and the Co- lumbus American Assoclation club, conferring here todav sald that nego- tiations probably will be completed this afternoon for the purchase of the Columbus club by the Cincinnati or- ganization. Sir Alan and Lady Cobham to Fly Here in Tiny 700-Pound “Moth™ Plane Sir Alan Cobham and Lady Cobham tomorrow will fly to Washington in their “moth” plane, a tiny aircraft that weighs only 700 pounds, and has folding wings so that it may be shel- tered in a country club garage. Sir Alan, hero of the 28,000-mile flight from London to Melhourne and back, is coming to Washington to ad- dress the National Geographic Society Friday ovening. He and Lady Cob- ham will be met at Bolling Field by Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, the society, and by officials of the War Department. Army Air Corps officers are showing the aviator this courtesy as a recognition of the co- o] jon of the British Government when the United States Army aviators flew around the world. 8ir Alan Cobham and Lady Cobham will leave Miller Field, Staten Island, president of | | tomorrow morning at 11 o'zlock. They will stop in Philadelphia to be lunch- eon guests of Kenneth Betts Walton, and they expect to land here about 3:80 o'clock. Sir Alan Cobham will describe on Friday evening one of the greatest flights In aviation annals—that which he made from London to Cape Town through the heart of Africa, over territory which had never before been observed from the air. He viewed such scenic wonders as the cataract of the Nile, the great African lakes and the mammoth Vic- toria Falls. In Soudan he had to climb to 12,000 feet to escape sand was knighted in his Australien fight. ar. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,269 TWO CENTS. (#) Means Associated Press. FALL'S TELEGRAM READ TO SUUPPORT SECRECY CHARGE Told Chicago Company Oil Tank Construction Was “Nobody’s Business.” HARDING APPROVED LEASES, LETTER SAYS Finney Testifies He Helped Pre- pare Data on Which Message to Congress Was Based. Albert B. Fall, on trial jointly with Edward L. Doheny, ofl magnate, on a conspiracy charge to defraud the Government, when Secretary of the Interior, and on April 12, 1932, fn- formed the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works that no publicity had been given to negotiations for the construc- tion of ofl tanks in Hawail hecause “4t 1s no one's business,” and further because the nature of the project in volved a military secret. In support of its contention that Fall conducted the Doheny contract { negotiations for construction of the tanks, in return for which the Pan | American Co. received ofl reserve leases behind the veil of secrecy, Owen J. Roberts, special prosecutor, this | afternoon presented the foregoing facts to the jury in Criminal Divisior 1 in answer to a telegram of protes’ made by the Chicago company, also | placed in evidence. On the same date, April the ! Chicago company telegraphed 1 it | understood the Interior Department ntine station, bat | had invited a list of bids to be sub- unt of strong winds the fuel|mitted privately for the construction was exhausted. Base Comdr. Edmonds! of the Hawailan tanks; that the bid d After Running Off 12 Away Again. trom Biloxi, took the two patrol boats and went to Southwest Pass for fuel. Assist Prohibition Administrator J.'B. Mathews of New a chief motor machinist mate, well armed, were left on board the rum schooner as a guard to hold her until the return of the patrol boats. On the return of Base Comdr. J2d- monds to_the place where he had left the guarded schooner, he found that the rum runner had departed with his {guard and the prohibition officer. The {facts were communicated to the Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa Tuesday ;morning and the cutter proceeded to {gea at full speed and bas scoured the gulf for the kidnaped men, but has not found any trace of the schooner. It is probable, officials said, that the schoorier will take the officer and guard to Nassau or some other for- eign port. As all this happened out- eide of the $-mile limit, the master of the schooner may have considered it within his rights and this may cause serfous complieations, it was pointed out. BLANTON ATTACKS AUTO PERMIT PLAN District Will Lose $300,000 Under Commissioners’ Pol- Orleans and| ed and the whale the | ha@ not heen advert | matter was being handled with | ntmost secrecy aud further that | representative of the company was | refused a set of the plans at the de {partment. The telegram added this | procedure was contrary to Govern | ment policy and the company hoped it would be given am opportunity to submit 2 bid. | Fall Objected to Criticism. Fall, in his reply, declared the de- parfment did not subwit the bids I'privately and that under the law “we are required to deal with of com anies. No publicity was given as it is no cne's busin 1I's telegram { said he_could not e ain any pro- ! test and he did not sec where the de- partment’s action warranted critieism. The Government has shown that proposals to construct the tanks were mailed to two institutions not engaged !in the ofl business—J. G. White & Co and Ford, Bacon & Davis, both engineering corporations. These telegrams were read by Mi Roberts as documentary evidence and fwere not produced by any witnesses Mr. Roberts then endeavored to i prove that the Pan American Co. de stred Fall to suspend operations in ! Naval Reserve No. 2 because of the overproduction of oil, by introducing a letter dated July 8, 1922, from Joseph J. Cotter, attorney for the company to the then cabinet officer. Letter Cited Slump. This letter cited the slump in il | prices and the tremendous overpro | duction fn that year and requested the { Secretary to call a halt in drilling and | pumping. Fall replied to this letter, addressing icy, He Charges. | his communication to “Col. E. L. Do. {heny” and calling him “My dear e colonel.” Fall said, “I am in cordial Vigorous attack upon the District | &ccord h your ideas and reasoning" Commissioners for an alleged loss of | ©n the matter of shutting down pro- more than $300,000 in revenue from ' duction on the Government leased re it ™ serves, and added that instructions the sale of drivers' licenses by their | for cagsation of activitl s Vs o6 TIIIER { S pent foes Lots or cessation of activities were going s vel Dersons . forth immediately who refuse to renew their permits| The Government's stand on this before July 1 next was made by Rep- action is that the Doheny company resentative Thomas L. Blanton, Dem. desired to get higher prices for its oil ocrat, Texas, before the Gibson sub. | Which would be produced from recent committes of the House District com. |1y acquired es from the depart- mittee today. Mr. Blanton also asked the Gibson subcommittee to take some action to correct the situation resulting from a monopoly granted to taxicab and bus companies at the Union Station, in the streets near the hotels and in Potomac Park. Mr. Blanton also urged the committee to take action in support of legislation for a new garbage-disposal plant at Cherry Hill, Va., and in a eulogy of the controller general's office attacked District Au- ditor Daniel J. Donovan. Ringgold Hart, tion counsel, was again before the subcommittee today with definite in- formation on several points which the subcommittee yesterday invited him to study. Reviews Companies’ Payments. Mr. Hart reviewed the histos legislation regarding street rn‘[-lywno; companies’ payment for crossing of- ficers, and said that with the growth of modern traffic the street railway ) companies should not be called upon . tobry}{t.l’l:tlr salaries. r. also recommended a fugi- tive law for the District as re«r:m‘n» mended yesterday by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of the police force. The subcommittes asked Mr. Hart to prepare the draft of a bill for the committee. Mr. Hart sald that the corpora- tion counsel had asked him to sug- gest to the subcommittee that three additional assistant counsel are needed to handle the work at the Police Court. Repre- sentative Houston asked if it would not relleve the situation to have magistrate courts set up in the vari- ous police precincts. Mr. Hart thought that the judges in the Police Court might try ordinary cases of misdemeanors without requiring the presence in each case of a prosecu- u:; from the corporation counsel office. A t re p.ifllly for personal injuries that notice of intent to sue should be given within a limited period after the injury and recommended that !the time limit should be reduced from three years to one, but argued that notice should be given within 60 days In order to allow an oppor- (Continued on Page 4, Columa 6J assistant corpora- corporation | Mr. Hart also suggested as a pre- | uigite to sults against the munlci- [¥ ment under terms of the Pearl Harbor contract, and by shutting off the flow of rlval company oil would therefore find a much better market for its prod uct, when time came to embark on devélopment of Its leases. The late President Warren G. | Harding knew about the oll leases {and the Pear] Harbor profect and ap- proved of them. e also sent a_mes. (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) |LIBERALS IN PANAMA PLAN CHURCH CONTROL Laws Similar to Mexico’s Are Em- bodied in Bill Submitted to Congress. By the Associated Press. | PANAMA, December 1.—Religious | restrictions similar in many respects | to those now in force in Mexico are ! called for in a bill which has been sub- { mitted to Congress by Liberals, who propose the regulation of religious ‘worship. The measure has created a desp im- pression in all circles and is likelv to become the subject of heated debate | both within the Chamber and among | the publie. { The bill provides that teaching shall be entirely laical, that priests shall be forbidden to direct periodicals or to make political attacks or e=%'iams of state institutions, that religious communities may not possess prop- | erty, that all church property shall re- | vert to the state and that religious manlfestations out of doors shall be prohibited. Violations would be punishable by arrest and heavy fines. NEW PAPER APPEARS. emphis Evening Appeal Makes Debut With 52-Page Edition. MEMPHIS, Tenn.,, December 1 (#) —The Memphis Evening Appeal made its debut here today with a first edi- tion n{ 52 :lna—.,((:wr Morris is managing editor of the paper, which is published by the Commercial Pub- lishing Co., publishers of the Commer- ch.l"_'.I Appeal, morning paper. 6 new paper takes full Asso- ted Press service. | i